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Many of you will have already heard from the coverage of this sale all over the blogosphere that after just 2 hours of being up for auction on SitePoint Blogging Fingers was sold for the shiny figure of $6000! I am very happy with the sale, it has taken a lot of pressure off of me.

A potential problem when a blog changes ownership is that core loyal readership gets disgruntled and decreases in number because they used to read the blog to read the original bloggers opinions. I took this into account when making the sale and I have agreed with the new owner that I will stay blogging here for at least 1 more week.

I am still in negotiations about staying on for longer.

This weeks posts will contain lots of material about the sale, including what I did behind the scenes, lessons learned and other must-read info if you are thinking of selling your blog.

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According to My knowledge and valuation methods your blog’s Net worth is $ 86,936.16.
than why did u sell your blog for just $ 6000?….

i m master in Business & IP Assets (Intellectual Properties)…… if u have waited for few more years (means 5 more years) than its net worth would be over $ 1 Million….. (according to the current Compounded annual Growth Rate of 40%).